> RPM comes with a similar tool called rpm2cpio. It creates cpio archives,
> as you probably guessed. Those can then be extracted with the command
> 'cpio -i <archive'. While not as common of a tool as tar, it gets the
> job done and is guaranteed to be installed wherever RPMs are found.

Guaranteed to be installed, but not guaranteed to work :-) The one on SuSE 7.2 does not work.

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